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    US photographer Alex Prager has won this year’s Foam Paul Huf Award. She will receive a €20,000 grant and her work will be the subject of an exhibition in Amsterdam

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    After decades of research and carefully nurtured relationships, Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss are mounting an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Russian photography at FotoFest 2012 in Houston.

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    Long interested in the tradition of photography in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, they have centered this year’s festival, which begins Friday in Houston, on contemporary Russian photography. About 40 photographers will be coming from Russia to give talks and show their work, some of them placing their images up for auction for the first time.

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    The 5D MKII came out nearly 4 years ago – but this is still one of the single most common questions I get to this day as new people are continually entering the HDSLR world.  I also find that many professionals aren’t aware of many of these settings themselves and I thought: “Better late than never.”    So here are the settings that I have used with the Canon 5D MKII – and a comparison between the standard picture profile, the profile I recommend, and the Technicolor profile with some examples on grading

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    Times Editor Davan Maharaj said, “After careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan, including the allegation that the images reflect a breakdown in unit discipline that was endangering U.S. troops.”

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    Through June 15, the gallery Magasin de Jouets in Arles will welcome three talented young contemporary photographers who confront their worlds, attitudes and practices through complementary pieces of work. Ulrich Lebeuf, Stéphane C. and Olli Berry give us the world as they see it

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  • Jim Romenesko

    via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/04/17/cincy-enquirer-apologizes-for-photo-with-f-word/

    Presses were stopped at Cincinnati Enquirer over the weekend after someone spotted “F*ck” in a photo. Thousands of Sunday papers were tossed out and the photo was changed for the new run.

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    Massoud Hossaini’s photos of the carnage following a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kabul were so powerful that The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all published them on their front pages on December 7. But each ran different images from the same scene.

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    Paul Szynol has a passion for street photography in the great tradition of narrative photojournalism. He came of age in Warsaw, Poland and first came to the United States in 1984, which, as he ironically observes “was the year that New York City’s transit fare rose from 75 cents to 90 cents, 33 previously unknown Bach pieces were found in an academic library; and Canon demoed its first digital still camera

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    Columbia University has announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners—and they include Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing took the title in the category of breaking news photography.

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    – Breaking News Photography: Massoud Hossaini, Agence France-Presse
    – Feature Photography: Craig F. Walker, Denver Post | Story

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    Today a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of Philip Datz in the Eastern District of the U.S. District Court that challenges Suffolk County’s policy and practice of obstructing the First Amendment right of the press and the public to record and gather the news about police activity in public places. 

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    “He always had a vision about how he wanted every picture,” Campbell says. “He liked strength in his pictures, and he got you to do things that you never thought you could do. He was very encouraging and would talk to you about a picture first, and slowly get you there to where he wanted. And you’d be amazed that you even could do that. It was always a pleasure working with him. He was a complete gentleman, and I loved every picture he took of me.”

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    The final selection included JP Lopez ’ reportage on starving children in Guatemala, Colin Delfosse on military sites in Kazakhstan, and Misha Freidman on the tuberculosis epidemic in former Soviet states. Their work will be exhibited at the Bar Floréal in Paris in September 2012.

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    On this 20th anniversary of the conflict in Bosnia, Tom Stoddart shares the story of the siege he documented.

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  • Breaking Into Prison

    Sean Kernan wanted to take pictures inside a prison. To his surprise, the warden let him in and left him to wander.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/breaking-into-prison/?pagewanted=all

    Sean Kernan’s noirish photo essay on prison life was not the result of careful planning, research or even an interest in issues of incarceration.

    It was a crime of opportunity

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    Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo session with James Nachtwey, the famed war photographer who shot the pictures for Vogue.

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    Kirsten Klein is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed photographers and possibly its best landscape photographer.

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    For over three decades Contact Press Images has promoted and distributed the work of some of the finest award-winning photojournalists and documentarians in the world

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    Welcome the Airport 4-Sight™, the most convenient, lightweight solution on 4-wheels. With the introduction of the 4-Sight, Think Tank Photo has created an entire new category of lightweight rolling camera bags.

    Think Tank Photo set out to design a more ergonomic roller to reduce fatigue and strain on traveling photographers. The result, the first four wheel roller designed specifically for photographers. It meets International airline carry-on standards, (always check your airline for current size restrictions). Weight has been dramatically reduced through innovative bag design and a strict focus on features that photographers identify as most beneficial. A lockable zipper provides security.

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    He leads us to the heart of the Africa we rarely see, the Africa of industry, of metallurgy. Here in Nigeria, where labor is harsh and demanding, boilermakers rub shoulders with the glitzy starlets of Nigerian Bollywood

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